Bent County register., 1887-03-12

! -Mctcalf and Blackman, have
moved to the Godding block north
of the railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conkling, of Free
port, Illinois, are visiting the family
of Mr.. J. NJ. Cooper. They are on
their way home from California.
DIR. r. ]. Burns, the dentist, is
sgain in Lamar prepared to attend to
The wants of the people. The Doctor
is a first-class workman. Office at
the post office.
Il. /. Maxwell has purchased =
lot just south of the Blodgrtt build
ing and will put up store room
twenty-four hy sixty feet. Must have
more room he says.
There are forty two counties in
Colorado, with representation in
the Legislature of twen,y-six in the
senate and forty-nine in the house.
No increase of this number can be
made until 1890.
DIR. Har,y arrived here Monday
from Macksburg, Iowa, and has taken
DR.. McMuIl.n's old office oyer the
post office. DIR. Hasty is graduate
of Drake university. of Iowa, and
has praciiced with great success at
Macksburg for number of years.
"A. w. Miller, II. &. and j. p.
Devlin, of Las Aniinas, were in town
Monday. Mr. Miller was twice may
or of La Junta and is an old timer
in this country. He is now manufac-
turing brick nj Las Animas.
L. w. Wray. from Boston, was
in town Tuesday. He reports times
iivelp down there, and said one Hmm
dred and thirty-two lots were taken
in that place in one day last week.
The country around the town is be-
ing filed on until claims near town
are getting scarce.
Mr.. Turner, accompanied by his
wife, arrived here :. week ago last
evening. He has opened real
estate Office in the Office OF Graham
Il Cooper aud already has been EN-
ployed on two important contest
cases. He has i fine library and is
thoroughly posted ON the land laws
and land practice.
DIR. w. S. Ayerill, dentist from
Alton, Iowa, has located in Lamar,
and does not come altogether as n
stranger, as number of our Iowa
citizens are acquainted with him and
speak highly of him as citizen and
dentist, we wish him good practice.
w. L. Morehouse, FIRM Win
field, kausas, has started lumber
ward in the city lie has already re-
ceived eight ears of lumber and will
have q good stock as soon as the
lumber can be got here. His yard is
located north of the track east Of
Main street t~o blocks.
Hon. q. NJ. Woodwork, member
of the state senate from Bent county,
was in town Sunday and made MS an
agreeable call Mr.. Woodwork has
lived in Bent county over twenty
years, during which time he has tax
en- All active part in politics, and is
pretty well posted ON the history of
Colorado, and her old timers. He
expects to visit Lamar again soon.
A team driven by Mrs. d. +.
Stokes Sunday became frightened
and in their endcavors TO ran broke
the douLletrec. Mrs. Stokes held to
the lines and was drawn over the
I dash board, cutting her face quite
badly. Her little daughter and Miss
| Cooper, who were riding with her,
we're thrown out of the buggy but
were not injured.
An excursion numbering forty.
nine land hunters from Oskaloosa,
Kansas, arrived here "Wednesday
morning, and after spending two
days looking over the country decid
ell To locate scross the river. Bent
& Zimermnn have been in cores.
pondencc with these gentlemen foi
some time, and since their arriya
have been quito busy showing them
around with the result of locating
the whole party. They are now iT
correspondence with colony of one
hundred and fifty who desire TO 10
cate in this country.